Wheel-block.



110.876,424. PATENTBDJAN.14,1908.

A. J. ALLEN.

WHEEL BLOCK.-

APPLICATION FILED 511.11.13, 1906.

ANNA J. ALLEN, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI,

WHEEL-BLOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

Application filed January 13. 1906. Serial No. 295.958.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANNA J. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of St. Joseph, county of Buchanan, State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTheel-Blocks, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a manually-operable,road-vehicle brake, desirably actuated from the drivers seat, whichshall be simple of construction, easy and positive of operation, and notliable to get out of order.

lith this object in view, the invention consists in the novelconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts of a brakemechanism,as fully hereinafter described in the specification, summed up in theclaims, and illustrated in the drawing, in which latter:

Figure l is a side elevation of a road-vehicle, with my improvedbrake-mechanism applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a detached detail view of thebrake-mechanism and lFig. 3 is a plan view thereof.

Referring to the drawing in detail, l) represents a lever, convenientlydisposed to the hand of the driver on the vehicle-seat, preferablyworking in an arc-rack (Z, and fulcrulned at d2 to the vehicle-body A.

Pivotally connected to the lower end of the lever is a horizontal shaftC, at its other end pivotally connected, as at c, to a downward-inclinedrod c3, terminating in a bent, horizontally-exten(ling portion c*secured to a collar B loosely encircling the wagon-axle, or the like.Carried by the collar is a leg a, at its extremity carrying a brake-shoeA.

The operation will be apparent: In Fig. l, the road-vehicle is shownwith the brakeshoe in operation, that is to say, as bearing against oneof the rear vehicle-wheels, to prevent baclnvard. creeping of thevehicle when the horses come to a stop in ascending a hill. 'Vhen it isdesired to elevate the brake-shoe, away from contact with thevehicle-wheel, the driver seizes the handle of lever D and swings thelatter on its fulcrum cl2, the lower f extremity of the lever thusmoving upward, 1 drawing with it the shaft c, the rear end of .which isconsequently depressed, carrying with.it the rod c3, which. willnecessarily swing upward the brake-shoe, away from contact with thewheel.

As will be obvious, if an ordinary brake is road-vehicle, mybrake-mechanism may be placed on the other side, that is, on theleftside of the vehicle, and vice versa, so as not to interfere one withthe other.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A brake-mechanism for road-vehicles, comprising a lever adapted to befulcrumed to the vehicle-body, a horizontal shaft pivotally secured atone end to the lower portion of the lever, a downward-extending rodpivotally secured to the other end of the horizontal shaft and.terminating in ,a bent,

liorizontally-extending ried at the end of the horizontal, bent portionand adapted to loosely surround the vehicle-axle, a leg carried by thecollar, and a brake-shoe carried at the lower' extremity of the leg. Y

2. A brake-mechanism for road-vehicles, comprising a lever adapted to befulcrumed to the vehicle-body, an arc-rack for the lever, a horizontalshaft pivotally secured at one end to the lower portion of the lever, adownwar ilextending rod pivotally secured to the other end of thehorizontal shaft and. terminating in a bent, horizontally-exten dingportion, a collar carried at the end of the horizontal, bent portion andadapted to loosely surround the vehicle-axle, a leg carried by thecollar, and a brake-shoe carried at the l lower extremity of the leg.

ANNA J. ALLEN.

l l l I l l vWitnesses A. E. HOLLEY, 1 A. J. GnvrN.

used on one side, as, say, the right-side, of a portion, a collar car-'1

